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Any new drive entering the 3D NAND SSD fray is going to be compared to Samsung's 3D V-NAND equipped drives. After all the Korean giants have had a huge head start when it comes to bringing 3D NAND drives to market and are currently already producing denser 48-layer NAND to enable huge capacity SSD's whereas Crucial are just leaving the starting blocks using 32-layer NAND. Having said that it's always good to get another player entering the market place.
The MX300's overall sequential read performance left us feeling a bit flat, as 530MB/s is ‘so so' for a drive these days; it's even bettered by Crucial's own 2D TLC NAND equipped BX200. That said, it's sequential write performance and for that matter its 4K write performance tell a different story as both are very good and crush the BX200. But when it's matched to Samsung's mighty 850 EVO it does take a bit of a battering for both sequential reads and writes.
The drives IOPS performance is impressive producing a figure of 93,230 IOPS for reads which exceeds the official figure of 92,000IOPS while writes at 80,801 IOPS fall a little short of the official 83,000 IOPS.
The MX300 750GB Limited Edition is priced at a very competitive £168.99 inc VAT which bodes well for the pricing of the rest of the range coming later this year.
Pros
- 3D NAND
- Strong write performance.
Cons
- 4K read performance.
- Having to wait for smaller capacities to come to market.
Kitguru says: Crucial's entry into the 3D NAND equipped SSD market is a pretty good first attempt and at the very least it gives Samsung some competition at last.
